Yearly Archives: 2014

BOULDER COUNTY, CO – It doesn’t have to cost an Etruscan king’s ransom or an Egyptian pharoah’s arm and a leg to collect ancient art and antiquities. There’s an entry level that nearly any aspiring collector can afford, says Teresa Dodge, executive director of Artemis Gallery, whose Summer Discovery Auction is slated [Read More]

The auction will be conducted by Philip Weiss Auctions in Lynbrook, NY, at 1 p.m. Eastern time. LYNBROOK, N.Y. – A summer sale spectacular featuring over 700 lots of historical items, militaria, posters, rare books, rock ‘n’ roll, ocean liner memorabilia, aviation collectibles and more will be held Wednesday, July 23rd, by [Read More]

1694 was quite an eventful year. On 27th July the Bank of England was founded through Royal Charter and resulted in the first ever Government debt. It was the year of the Great Fire of Warwick and the year Queen Mary II of England died of smallpox leaving William III to rule [Read More]

The first purely Islamic coin, an exceptionally rare Umayyad 77h Gold Dinar, will be drawing in the collectors at A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd.’s forthcoming Islamic Coin Auction 26. The sale will be held on Wednesday 6 August 2014 in London. Graham Byfield, Islamic Coin specialist at A. H. Baldwin & [Read More]

A stocking, formerly the property of HM Queen Victoria has been discovered and is coming up for auction. The single white silk stocking worn by our longest serving monarch was discovered in Lichfield. Its origins as to how it came to fruition are cloaked in mystery and intrigue. One can only speculate [Read More]

The estates auction will be conducted by Crescent City Auction Gallery in New Orleans, La. NEW ORLEANS, La. – An important figural oil on canvas painting by the renowned Brazilian artist Emiliano di Cavalcanti (1897-1976), rendered in 1948 and titled Pescadores (Spanish for “Fishermen”), is expected to bring $150,000-$250,000 at an estates [Read More]

Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers has just released a catalog of over 1,000 lots selling in four sessions during the highly anticipated two-day summer auction. The firm hopes for another round of summer fireworks in the saleroom as Asian Art and Fine & Vintage Jewelry cross the block on Thursday, July 24, with [Read More]

The event was held June 13-14, online and at Mohawk Arms’ gallery, located in Bouckville, N.Y. BOUCKVILLE, N.Y. – A Confederate cannonball from the Battle of Gettysburg, mounted on three brass leg finials and engraved in script “Rebel shell – Gettysburg 1863,” sold for $5,850 at Mohawk Arms’ Auction #71, held June [Read More]

A sale of ‘Interiors’ at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions saw renewed interest in Chinese glass, with a fine and unusual vase from the Peking Glass Factory achieving a staggering £21,080.The sale was held at the auctioneers Donnington Priory saleroom in Newbury, Berkshire earlier this week. The leading vase was laden with auspicious [Read More]

A C.R.W. Nevinson Print of The Road from Arras to Bapaume, owned by a War Hero who served in Arras during the Great War achieved an exceptional £47,120 in a sale of Modern & Contemporary Prints that also saw auction records for Lichtenstein, Riley and Broodthaers along with top prices for prints [Read More]

The original chalk drawings of two lost paintings by American portrait and history painter, Benjamin West, surface at Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions’ sale of Old Masters & 19th Century Works on Paper on Thursday 24th July 2014. The black chalk on buff paper of Moses, 1787, [Lot 12] and another of St. [Read More]

Sales Up 24% from 2013 to $24.7 Million After Spectacular $8 Million June Auction (Chicago, IL) – In a tremendous, two-day sale this past weekend, Hart Davis Hart Wine Co. confirmed its status as the #1 Wine Auction House in the U.S. in the first half of 2014. HDH has the largest [Read More]

A pair of English George III giltwood armchairs by cabinet-maker and furniture designer, Thomas Chippendale, were one of the highlights from Roseberys latest fine art auction. Held in London on 24-25th June the sale totalled an impressive £900,493 (including buyers premium). Roseberys Managing Director Ian Cadzow said: “This year has been a [Read More]

Many of the furnishings are original to the home, completed in 1859 and used as a Union Army camp and residence for General U.S. Grant, his wife and their slave (yes, Grant owned a slave!) HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. – The entire contents of Walter Place – a spectacular antebellum home completed in [Read More]

A unique group of medals including the only Victoria Cross awarded for the British campaign in Tibet is to be offered by specialist London auctioneers Morton & Eden in a sale of Medals, Orders and Decorations. The sale is on Wednesday July 2. The medal group awarded to Lieutenant, later Colonel, John [Read More]

A mysterious antique Chinese box has just totalled £1,600 at auction this week, (25th June). The box discovered in a rural property in the Tamworth/Lichfield area appeared as Lot 655 in Richard Winterton Auctioneers of Lichfield three-day Antique, Home & Interiors Sale. Oriental works of art of all varieties are kept back [Read More]

The worldwide banknote session was led by the Tasmanian Devil Collection of Australian notes. FORT LEE, N.J. – A 1973-1976 specimen set of five banknotes from the United Arab Emirates sold for $16,520 at an auction of rare and highly collectible U.S. and worldwide banknotes, scripophily and security printing ephemera held May [Read More]

Also, a George II mahogany tilt-top table and a Lannuier Empire table each brought $30,000. ATLANTA, Ga. – A mahogany carved and figured Queen Anne highboy (high chest of drawers raised on cabriole legs), likely originating from Massachusetts and dating between 1730 and 1750, sold for $32,500 at a huge, high-end, multi-estate [Read More]